By Seth Boster From The Gazette Colorado Springs—The effort to build a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak is entering a fifth summer—what figures to be “a big year,” according to the project leader. Since 2020, Rocky Mountain Field Institute’s Carl Woody has overseen progress on a rerouted Devils Playground Trail hampered by…

Mounties say no criminal charges will be laid in a fatal rollover of an all-terrain tour bus at the Columbia Icefield in the Rocky Mountains more than two years ago. Three people were killed and 14 others had life-threatening injuries after the red-and-white Ice Explorer lost control on the road to the Athabasca Glacier, about…

Even though musician John Denver didn’t have the lyrics memorized yet, he walked onto the small stage at the Cellar Door, an intimate music club in the quaint Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1970, and sang a new song he’d finished co-writing the night before. As he made his way through the…

In this episode, Noah travels to the Rocky Mountains to explore how they were made and eroded by the catastrophic tectonics of the Flood. He’ll also explore Great Sand Dunes National Park and Devils Tower to see how the birth of the Rockies produced these amazing sites. Noah explores Rocky Mountain National Park to show…

Head north 7.4 miles from the Grand Lake entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park and you come to a rather innocuous-looking parking lot and campground. In fact, you’ve discovered one of the park’s most fascinating locations—the Holzwarth Historic Site, or as it was more quaintly known in the 1920s, the Never Summer Dude Ranch—where for…

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo.—An off-duty police officer in Colorado died in a 200-foot fall while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park this week. Park rangers responded Thursday to Mount Lady Washington, about 70 miles northwest of Denver. The rangers were helped in their search by a helicopter crew assigned to a wildfire near Steamboat…

The new year has brought more woes for Alberta’s resource sector already hit with low oil prices and fleeing investments before the U.S. announcement of the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation. Forty-one-year-old Albertan Ryan Telford, who has worked in the oil and gas sector since he was 17, says that from his experience and knowledge of…